There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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